Unless you believe they had no choice, and God made the decision for them.
Would you say then that what they have reserved for them, is just if they had no choice and were actually obeying God commands?
For one we do not know what is waiting for them in reality, some think they know. We do know however that Michael would not bring a railing accusation
against Satan when disputing over the body of Moses. He simply said the Lord rebuke thee. So why should we?
I can say that the deceived and the deceiver are the Lords Job 12:16 And that the Devil is the one who is the deceiver of the world Rev 12:9
Seeing that the deceiver of the world belongs to the Lord your assumption that he was made to believe he could overcome is possible. He himself deceived.
Thus perfect in all thy ways UNTIL iniquity was found within thee..........is simply a change of the shining one into the adversary.
Afterall if they are created can He not modify them at will? He does work ALL things after His own will.
I would agree with you that they are limited in what they can do, but that doesn't mean that free will does not exist, just that they are limited in the exercise of the power they were given when they were created
Limited power? Thats a good way of putting it. They were limited in their ability to defile the human race. And if limited in just how far they could bring man down to
death, who gave them the authority to even touch man to begin with? And why?
Is not the knowledge of good and evil necessary to become like God? Which is the point right?
And since man was condemned as a judgement due to that knowledge being gained, does God not show His righteousness in the forgiving of ALL sin by the death
of Christ Jesus?
In what way? He started the process by planting both trees and providing the serpent knowing Adam would fail but that was the way it was supposed to happen.
otherwise Jesus would not have been foreordained before the world.
These kind of topics make one think hey?
